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In geometry, a tetrahedron (pl.: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertices. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the ordinary convex polyhedra .
If the legs have lengths a, b, c, then the trirectangular tetrahedron has the volume [2] =. The altitude h satisfies [3] = + +. The area of the base is given by [4] =. The solid angle at the right-angled vertex, from which the opposite face (the base) subtends an octant, has measure π /2 steradians, one eighth of the surface area of a unit sphere.
Examples include Circoporus octahedrus, Circogonia icosahedra, Lithocubus geometricus and Circorrhegma dodecahedra; the shapes of these creatures are indicated by their names. [5] The outer protein shells of many viruses form regular polyhedra. For example, HIV is enclosed in a regular icosahedron, as is the head of a typical myovirus. [6] [7]
Eight examples of Heronian tetrahedra were discovered in 1877 by Reinhold Hoppe. [5] 117 is the smallest possible length of the longest edge of a perfect tetrahedron with integral edge lengths. Its other edge lengths are 51, 52, 53, 80 and 84.
John Skilling discovered an overlooked degenerate example, by relaxing the condition that only two faces may meet at an edge. This is a degenerate uniform polyhedron rather than a uniform polyhedron, because some pairs of edges coincide. Not included are: The uniform polyhedron compounds.
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